In the autumn of 1974, Lin Suihe was cornered in the grain house of educated youths and labeled as a "grain thief".
But what she was holding tightly in her arms was not food, but a bag of sweet potato seeds.
In her previous life, she starved to death in the winter after going to the countryside.
When she opened her eyes again in this life, she was back to her first day in the countryside.
She knows which grain house will become moldy, which batch of sweet potatoes will rot, which field will fail to harvest, which ditch will collapse in heavy rain.
This time, she doesn't want to starve to death.
She must first keep the food rations of the educated youth camp, and then plant the land of the Qinghe brigade;
She wants her children to have food to eat, so that the elderly don't have to count rice to cook in winter, and so that this land that is so poor that it smokes can grow more food year by year.
Later, many people said that the Qinghe Brigade's turnaround began when the girl with eyes like a hungry wolf came to the village while guarding a bag of sweet potato seeds.
And standing next to her was the man who was sent to Qinghe and was silent but delivered water to the fields for her one stroke at a time.
She grows grain, he builds canals.
Together they turned a year of famine into a year of plenty.
Rebirth | Educated youth going to the countryside | Farming | Infrastructure construction | Era career articles | Group portraits | Intellectual CP | Women's growth
